Month: September 2016

Jordan Moss/College of Engineering The Engineering Lean and Six Sigma conference (ELSS) took place Sept. 14-16, 2016 in downtown San Antonio and College of Engineering students took home a number of the top prizes at the annual industry conference. “I am really proud of our students’ active participation at the conference and solid performance in

UTSA has been ranked among the top 100 universities in the United States and among the top 400 in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-2017. The annual rankings measure world-class universities across their core missions including teaching and research. There are more than 20,000 universities worldwide. Only six Texas

By Deborah Silliman/College of Engineering The Undergraduate Awards (UA), the world’s largest international academic awards program, recognizing innovation and excellence at undergraduate level, has announced the winners of the 2016 program including Regional Winner, UTSA College of Engineering’s Andre Cleaver; and Highly Commended Entrant, UTSA College of Engineering’s Felipe Flores. Both will be recognized at

Get your pitch ready: the UTSA Center for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE), is announcing a campus-wide spin-off of its annual Student Technology Venture Competition to take place this fall: The Big Rowdy Idea Business Model Competition. This time around, UTSA graduate students are eligible to compete with their original business models as well as

Top-tier work could establish concrete structure standards for next 50 years Wassim Ghannoum, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $248,083 grant to support his top-tier research on the performance of an innovative new kind of high-strength reinforcing bars, commonly known as rebar.

By: Jo Ann Jones, COEHD The College of Education and Human Development’s Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) and the Center for Civic Engagement have partnered up with the College of Engineering (COE) to bring service learning to students in a whole new way. Through a grant from U.S. Department of Education awarded to ATE and

This award recognizes women who are making a difference in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) JoAnn Browning, dean of The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering, recently received the 2016 Inspiring Women in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication

By Deborah Silliman/College of Engineering The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering’s Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC) will be expanding to the UTSA Downtown Campus this fall semester. iTEC was established in 2007 for the purpose of introducing K-12 students to the many different fields of science, technology, engineering, arts and math

Meet Blake Bogenschutz. This former quarterback for the UTSA Roadrunners football team is now tackling his future as a civil engineer. Bogenschutz grew up in the small town of Carthage, Texas and began playing football in the 7th grade. “I was in love with the sport,” he said. “I knew this was going to be

Welcome to a new school year in the College of Engineering at UTSA! I hope that every one of you had a fun and productive summer season and are ready to lead the next generation of engineers through another year of great achievements in the classroom, national and international competitions, community service, and professional

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